Pre-tax earnings climbed 16% to $76m, from $66mthe year before, it said.

Revenue was up 19.6% to $14.6bn, from $12.2bnpreviously.

Wrist owns bunker tanker owner OW Bunker and Wrist Ship Supply.

CFO Morten Skou said: “As the shippingindustry continues to face challenging economic conditions, our focus has beenon working with our customers to provide them with as much operational and costefficiencies as possible when procuring bunker fuel and ship supplies.

“And